Study on health care expenditure of schedule tribes in Kanyakumari district

Tribal communities are one of the important segments of this nation. Indian tribal are traditional, conservative and unprivileged people. They are socially and economically weaker and also under object poverty and live in a subsistence economy and general backwardness. This is because of their ill health which is a cause and consequence of poverty. The major impediments to good health care inequity in health system and radical poverty of the masses. The present study was undertaken Andipottai and Kazhaparai settlements in Kanyakumari district. There is need for hour to establish government clinic or motivate private doctors to establish hospital and the government should more assistance to the private hospital. The medical personal should focuses on emphasizing the hygienic practices not only to patients but also to attendants.